Also on the legislative docket: Bills to restrict development in wildfire areas.

The law has proven stubbornly resistant to reform. But cities and other lead agencies are learning how to end-run the whole process.

In followup to 2018 Cal Supremes ruling, appellate court rejects "partial decertification" of EIR.

Terraces Of Lafayette, featuring in Golden Gates, moves forward at final SB 330 council meeting, but opponents have filed a new CEQA lawsuit.

Among other things, the neighbors didn't seek to stop construction until the project was almost built.

SB 1120, the duplex bill, almost passed but ran out of time. None of the five bills proposed last spring by Senate leader Toni Atkins made it to the governor.

It depends on which standards are in play in a particular situation, the California Supreme Court rules in a case from Stanislaus County.

SB 1120, which would ease duplex zoning and lot splits, is the most important land use/housing bill still likely to pass.

State-federal transportation and infrastructure projects likely won't be analyzed under federal law. But new rule could be reversed if Biden wins.